Success

To gain that which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.

To be a success, follow your obsessions obsessively.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

When I meet people, I no longer say 'Hi, I'm Derek Landy, pleased to meet you.' Now I say 'Hi, I'm number one bestselling author Derek Landy. Worship me.

There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

William James described success as a combination of two things. An inner ideal which is followed persistently with courage and Outer achievement related to that ideal.

Having been raised in a poor family makes part of who I am, but it determines not my future nor my destiny,it doesn't define who I will become, I am a rich man, I am a winner, I am the author of my own success or failure-God forbid failure, I shall prosper-so help me God.

To be a success, all we need is a purpose oriented journey filled with love and persistence.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed races won or lasting happiness achieved.

Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their journey to the twenty-second floor.

Your wisdom decides your value, the size of the problems you can solve, the opportunities you create, and ultimately the level of success you experience.

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

You catch your goal is not declare your success, But you catch your goal after your behavior with people is declare your success.

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination.